There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.